AdvantEdge Founders

“I think today if you ask me what's my purpose in life, it's to basically, I started this fund to create successful Indicons. Which is our definition of thousand crore companies as opposed to unicorns, which are a thousand million companies. Ultimately it's, if…”

“So we are hopeful that we should be able to take a couple of, ah, more exits in the next 12 to 18 months, ah, to be able to return almost two to three X of the fund within the, within a five year horizon itself.”

“I would say almost 30% of our 30 to 40% of our portfolio company consists of failed founders.”

“Initially, of course, Shuttle was trying to, thinking of running intercity micro buses, which are Innova's in a shared Way. And I think we did a little bit of brainstorming and discussion. We realized that the larger opportunity might be Intracity, which we di…”

“Being an early stage investor, we're coming in at, you know, sub million to two million dollar valuation. So we really don't want to be as part of the journey to build these companies into billion dollar companies. We are more than happy to exit at the one fif…”

“We've done a number of deals with the with Sachin Bhatia, the ex-founder of Make My Trip, current founder of Bulbul. We've done a number of deals with Rajan Anandan in his angel hat. He shares a number of good quality deal flow with us.”

“I think the biggest in check that we wrote was in, in in Rapido.”

“We've never made an investment based on projections, and I think nine out of 10 times nine out of 10 of our portfolio companies have not, never really hit the targets and numbers that they sought out to achieve.”

“Mobility by the very nature of the space requires a lot of offline, last mile execution, ah, expertise, ah, where you have to have people with local knowledge who can definitely create competitive advantages to companies who come from overseas.”

“So the advantage we only hire People who run businesses and I have entrepreneurial experience. Till now we've not hired anybody who's been a career investor itself”

“Two of the ones that we missed was, ah, India Lens and Early Salary. Ah, both of them were raising larger sums of capital. We had shown interest. We did take the process down to a conclusion level, but we realized that the check size that we were putting in ov…”

“We're also looking at opportunities in digital auto, and that's an exciting area for us because we feel that you know, the e-commerce model in auto is still not have been invested in. We don't have clear winners there.”

“I don't think I've come across a single company that's been able to grow, ah, in a linear fashion, month on month, quarter on quarter, year on year.”

“What we realized was that asset light businesses where the focus is predominantly on just building technology and you know, managing customers were businesses, which where we were able to build And grow businesses 50 to a hundred X from the time we invested in…”

“We also were able to convince Mr. Pawan Munjal to put in a personal check.”

“Rapido, as I already mentioned, we were the lead investor. We came in at, you know, two, two and a half million valuation.”

“On the mobility side, we have we looked at and passed on both DriveZ and Vogo, and the reason for that was our inherent hesitation to invest in businesses that have asset heavy or manage physical assets across their network.”